Ministry Burnout

Ministry Burnout
Author: John A. Sanford
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1992-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664253523

Teacher, faithful pastor, caretaker of the sick, personal counselor, activist, and preacher--these are some of the roles a minister must fill. The demands of these roles can lead to numerous dilemmas and stresses, and ultimately to burnout. Now a Jungian analysts and pastoral counselor provides practical suggestions for dealing with burnout.

Mad Church Disease

Mad Church Disease
Author: Anne Jackson
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0310287553

Mad Church Disease is a lively, informative, and potentially life-saving resource for anyone in ministry---vocational or volunteer---who would like to understand, prevent, or treat the epidemic of burnout in churches. The book draws on research and interviews with leaders from across the United States, providing statistics, stories, and hope for healing.

At Your Best

At Your Best
Author: Carey Nieuwhof
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0735291365

“A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.”—ADAM GRANT “Carey’s book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.”—SETH GODIN You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That’s the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar: ● Slammed is normal. ● Distractions are everywhere. ● Life gets reduced to going through the motions. Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow. Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you. At Your Best will help you ● replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity ● break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough ● clarify what matters most by restructuring your day ● master the art of saying no, without losing friends or influence ● discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems ● develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.

Reset

Reset
Author: David Murray
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433555212

"How did I get here?" These are the words of many Christian men on the brink of burnout or in the midst of breakdown. They are exhausted, depressed, anxious, stressed, and joyless. Their time is spent doing many good things, but their pace is unsustainable—lacking the rest, readjustment, and recalibration everyone needs on a regular basis. But there is good news: God has graciously provided a way for men to reset their lives at a more sustainable pace. Drawing on his own experiences—and time spent with other men who have also experienced burnout—pastor David Murray offers weary men hope for the future, helping them identify the warning signs of burnout and offering practical strategies for developing patterns that help them live a grace-paced life and reach the finish line with their joy intact.

Resilient Ministry

Resilient Ministry
Author: Bob Burns
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083086461X

Why does one well-equipped, well-meaning person in ministry succeed while another fails? Bob Burns, Tasha Chapman and Donald Guthrie undertook a five-year intensive research project on the frontlines of pastoral ministry to answer that question. What they found was nothing less than the DNA of thriving ministry today.

Leading on Empty

Leading on Empty
Author: Wayne Cordeiro
Publisher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441207422

Wayne Cordeiro found himself paralyzed by burnout. He had been in ministry for 30 years, and 10 years after founding what is now the largest church in Hawaii, he found himself depleted. Wayne took a season out of his growing ministry to recharge and refocus on the truly important. He was able to get back in touch with his life, get back in proper balance, and re-energize his spirit through Christ in a way that propelled him forward to greater levels of service. Wayne first gave this message at a recent Willow Creek Leadership Summit, where it was the highest-rated presentation by those in attendance. Pulling no punches, Wayne talks about the walls leaders must break through and how to move on with integrity. Included are ways to care for oneself physically and emotionally as well as spiritually.

Didn't See It Coming

Didn't See It Coming
Author: Carey Nieuwhof
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0735291357

An influential pastor, podcaster, and thought leader believes it's not only possible to predict life's hardest moments, but also to alter outcomes, overcome challenges, and defeat your fiercest adversaries. Founding Pastor of one of North America's most influential churches, Carey Nieuwhof wants to help you avoid and overcome life's seven hardest and most crippling challenges: cynicism, compromise, disconnectedness, irrelevance, pride, burnout, and emptiness. These are challenges that few of us expect but that we all experience at some point. If you have yet to confront these obstacles, Carey provides clear tools and guidelines for anticipation and avoidance. On the other hand, if you already feel stuck in a painful experience or are wrestling with one of these challenges, he provides the steps you need to find a way out and a way forward into a more powerful and vibrant future. Now available in paperback edition.

On Pastoring

On Pastoring
Author: H.B. Charles Jr.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 080249451X

From one pastor to another... No one is ever fully prepared for the ministry. For pastors just starting out, those needing a little rebalancing, or those growing tired in the trenches, a short guide to the basics is a welcome relief. In On Pastoring, H. B. Charles gives 30 instructive reflections on the pastor’s heart, leadership, and public ministry, covering topics like: Cultivating personal godliness Prioritizing your family Guarding your ministry effectiveness Planning, preparing, and preaching sermons Balancing pastoral roles and duties Being a pastor means wearing many hats, weathering lots of pressure, and bearing great responsibility. Let H. B. Charles be a trusted advisor as you do the serious work of shepherding a flock of God.

A Christian Approach to Work and Family Burnout

A Christian Approach to Work and Family Burnout
Author: Thomas V. Frederick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1498584292

In A Christian Approach to Work and Family Burnout: Calling, Caring, and Connecting, Thomas V. Frederick and Scott E. Dunbar provide a Christian spiritual model to prevent and cope with burnout caused by the workplace and conflict with family. Coupled with indifference and lack of urgency, burnout eliminates a sense of purposefulness and results in psychological depletion. To counter this, Frederick and Dunbar stress the importance of connecting with God in order to understand intrinsic motivations and redefine work as a calling and means to care for others.

People-Pleasing Pastors

People-Pleasing Pastors
Author: Charles Stone
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830841091

Charles Stone's research on thousands of pastors and ministry leaders demonstrates the dangers of approval-motivated leadership. Bringing together biblical insights and neuroscience findings, Stone shows why we fall into people-pleasing patterns and what we can do to overcome these tendencies for more effective ministry.